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3 Things

1. Under Pressure (Humble Dollar)

2. How to Use TIPS in Your Portfolio (Amy Arnott)

3. Retirement planning: Preparing for long-term care (Vanguard)

My Videos & Articles

• Strategies to Reduce IRMAA Costs (Medicare Surcharges) (Reddit)
• ​8 Ways to Reduce Medicare IRMAA Payments​
• ​What is the Tax Triangle? (FQF)

ICYMI

• Debt Reckoning (Harper's)
• Resilience is a practice (Seth Godin)
• Ed Slott: Roth Conversions Are Trickier Under New Tax Law (Think Advisor)
• Q&A: Don't I need to know more about my husband's business? (The Joint Account)
• Scottie Sheffler Shares Solomonic Wisdom That We Can All Apply In Life And Money (The Net Worthwhile Weekly)
• No One Knows Anything About AI (Cal Newport)
• The AI Search Tipping Point (Tomasz Tunguz)
• If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good For Everything, Should We All Be on Them? (Derek Thompson)
• Tales From the Island of Illness (More to That) (Note: I've had tinnitus now for about 4 years)
• Selling Sales (Money with Katie) (Note: Katie is an excellent writer)
• Why Senior Retirees Are Moving Onto University Campuses (Financial Advisor)
• Archaeologists Just Pulled Pieces Of The Lighthouse Of Alexandria Out Of The Mediterranean Sea (ATI)
• Would You Pay Nearly $9,000 for a Puzzle? (NYT)

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What I'm Reading, Listening To, Watching, and Thinking About

• I'm still reading Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz.
• But that didn't stop me from buying Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time by Dean Buonomano. This in part research for the novel I'm writing.
• I'm also reading two books by Bill Bernstein: The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything and A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World.

Resource

• New Promo Code: Monarch Money 50% off the First Year Discount Code: ROB50​
• You can see a list of all of my Youtube videos here.
• You can see a list of the budgeting, investing and retirement planning tools I use here.
• ProjectionLab 10% Discount Code RBERGER-10​
• You can view past issues of the newsletter here.
• NEW: DIYRetirement Subreddit​

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Best,
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Rob Berger
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